Off Topic: Deer Herd To Be Destroyed
06-23-2015, 11:46 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
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06-24-2015, 08:07 AM
#12
Boone & Crockett
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Decades ago entire families were infected with TB from tubercular milk cows.
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/f...ral/mbovis.pdf
How common is human disease with M. bovis?
M. bovis causes a relatively small proportion, less than 2%, of the total number of cases of TB disease in the United States. This accounts for less than 230 TB cases per year in the United States. M. bovis transmission from cattle to people was once common in the United States. This has been greatly reduced by decades of disease control in cattle and by routine pasteurization of cow’s milk.
How are people infected with M. bovis?
People are most commonly infected with M. bovis by eating or drinking contaminated, unpasteurized dairy products. The pasteurization process, which destroys disease-causing organisms in milk by rapidly heating and then cooling the milk, eliminates M. bovis from milk products.
Infection can also occur from direct contact with a wound, such as what might occur during slaughter or hunting, or by inhaling the bacteria in air exhaled by animals infected with M. bovis. Direct transmission from animals to humans through the air is thought to be rare, but M. bovis can be spread directly from person to person when people with the disease in their lungs cough or sneeze.
M. bovis causes a relatively small proportion, less than 2%, of the total number of cases of TB disease in the United States. This accounts for less than 230 TB cases per year in the United States. M. bovis transmission from cattle to people was once common in the United States. This has been greatly reduced by decades of disease control in cattle and by routine pasteurization of cow’s milk.
How are people infected with M. bovis?
People are most commonly infected with M. bovis by eating or drinking contaminated, unpasteurized dairy products. The pasteurization process, which destroys disease-causing organisms in milk by rapidly heating and then cooling the milk, eliminates M. bovis from milk products.
Infection can also occur from direct contact with a wound, such as what might occur during slaughter or hunting, or by inhaling the bacteria in air exhaled by animals infected with M. bovis. Direct transmission from animals to humans through the air is thought to be rare, but M. bovis can be spread directly from person to person when people with the disease in their lungs cough or sneeze.
06-24-2015, 08:50 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Michigan's problem with bTB, is that its a specific strain and is only found in MI. The MI-DNR is trying to reduce the herd, as the whitetail is transmitting it to the dairy cattle. Many herds have been destroyed in NE MI, hitting the cattle farmers hard. They've completely eliminated ANY baiting in the bTB zones and doe permits are liberal.
However........... According to the MI-DNR, bucks are the primary cause of transfer from one local deer herd to another. Does and fawns in a specific area may be totally bTB free but, when bucks start wandering from area to area during the rut, they transmit it to other areas which are bTB free. So...... they put a 3 point rule on bucks.
However........... According to the MI-DNR, bucks are the primary cause of transfer from one local deer herd to another. Does and fawns in a specific area may be totally bTB free but, when bucks start wandering from area to area during the rut, they transmit it to other areas which are bTB free. So...... they put a 3 point rule on bucks.
